2016 book log

I didn’t have quite as much time to read this year as in previous years but I managed to make my way through a few books. I’m sharing them in the hope that you’ll find something new to read — and perhaps you’ll share your favourite books from the year with me, too.

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P.S. Here are my book logs from 2015 and 2014.

Fiction picks

1. A Little Life— Hanya Yanagihara
2. Carrying Albert Home — Homer Hickam
3. The Course of Love — Alain de Botton
4. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared— Jonas Jonasson
5. The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes

Non-fiction picks

1. The Hidden Pleasures of Life — Theodore Zeldin
2. Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
3. Big Magic— Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Becoming Wise— Krista Tippett
5. Bird by Bird— Anne Lamott

Full 2016 book log

1. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared — Jonas Jonasson
2. Black Coffee Blues — Henry Rollins
3. How to be a Bad Christian — Dave Tomlinson
4. In Praise of Slow — Carl Honoré
5. The Obstacle is the Way — Ryan Holiday
6. The Concise 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene
7. Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
8. The Hidden Pleasures of Life — Theodore Zeldin
9. Hyperbole and a Half — Allie Brosh
10. The Return of the Prodigal Son — Henri Nouwen
11. Carrying Albert Home — Homer Hickam
12. How to Be Here — Rob Bell
13. Pure — Rose Bretécher
14. On Writing — Stephen King
15. Brave Enough — Cheryl Strayed
16. Good Trouble — Joe Biel
17. So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport
18. Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke
19. Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert
20. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — Cory Doctorow
21. A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
22. It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) — Nora McInerney Purmort
23. Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human — Vybarr Cregan-Reid
24. Becoming Wise — Krista Tippett
25. The Way of the Runner — Adharanand Finn
26. Grief is the Thing with Feathers — Max Porter
27. We Don’t Know What We’re Doing — Thomas Morris
28. The Examined Life — Stephen Grosz
29. Fathomless Riches — Richard Coles
30. A Whole Life — Robert Seethaler
31. The Zimzum of Love — Rob and Kristen Bell
32. The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
33. Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
34. The Course of Love — Alain de Botton
35. Silence and Honey Cakes — Rowan Williams